Category: Sprint Car & Midget News
POWRi Midgets headed for Fayette County, Peoria, with Badger Midgets, New Zealand’s Pickens
MILLSTADT, Ill. (May 27, 2011)—The POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series will have an expanded field of competition in its events at Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Ill., on June 3 and Peoria (Ill.) Speedway on June 4, racing with the co-sanctioning Badger Midget Auto Racing Association plus New Zealand Midget champion Michael Pickens. Kiwi [...]
Category: Fayette County Speedway, Illinois, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
SPEED to Televise POWRi Lucas Oil Midgets “Battle at the Center” Saturday
The POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets inaugural “Battle at the Center” on the Mini Magic Mile in Du Quoin, Ill., will be televised Saturday (May 28) at 7:30 p.m. EDT on SPEED Channel. The event was run on Dec. 18, 2010. If you’re in the mood for a battle on the dirt, we can deliver [...]
Category: DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, Illinois, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Hmiel Hoosier 100 Grand Marshal Honoring 30th Anniversary of Rice’s 1981 WIn!!!
Indianapolis, IN (May 26)-With less than 24 hours before the 2011 Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, the staff at Track Enterprises takes a look back at the 1981 race and the win of Larry Rice. 2010 winner Shane Hmiel, injured in an accident at Terre Haute last October, serves as the Grand Marshal [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News
Monster Energy™ Sprint Series Hits Brownstown Friday!
(Bill W) May 25 , 2011 – The Monster Energy™ Sprint Car Series embarks on the Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Illinois this Friday night to contest “Round 3” in their campaign! The banked ¼ mile will be the third different track to host the series presented by the Midwest Open Wheel Association, and there [...]
Category: Fayette County Speedway, Illinois, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
Fayette County Speedway hosts MOWA Monster Energy Sprint Car Series this Friday, May 27th!
The May 27, 2011 Special Show at Fayette County Speedway will feature the Monster Energy Sprint Car Series 410 winged sprints! Additional classes running are Crate Late Models, Modifieds, Street Stocks, Hornets and Team Cars. Gates open at 5 p.m., draw closes at 7 p.m., hot laps are at 7 p.m. and racing immediately follows [...]
Category: Fayette County Speedway, Illinois, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
Dereck King takes dominant victory in POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micros at Wayne County Speedway
WAYNE CITY, Ill. (May 21, 2011)—Dereck King started from pole and led all 25 laps to take a dominant victory Saturday in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series at Wayne County Speedway. “We were good from the get go,” King said. “We won our heat and qualifier and got the points to start [...]
Category: POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Terry McCarl Conquers Monster Energy™ “Round 2” at Jacksonville!
(Bill W) May 20, 2011 – Terry McCarl found Victory Lane for the first time in 2011 on Friday night in Monster Energy™ Sprint Car Series action at the Jacksonville Speedway in Illinois. It was the Altoona, Iowa native’s first win since a pair of injuries cost him the majority of the 2010 season. The [...]
Category: Illinois, Jacksonville Speedway, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
Natasha Cox brings momentum into POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micros at Wayne County Speedway
WAYNE CITY, Ill. (May 18, 2011)–Natasha Cox moved closer toward her goal of winning a feature in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series last Friday, finishing a career-best fifth at Belle-Clair Speedway. The 19-year-old from Casey, Ill., has her sights on a stronger performance Saturday (May 21) when the POWRi 600cc Micros race [...]
Category: Illinois, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Monster Energy™ Sprint Series Tries Jacksonville Again on Friday!
(Bill W) May 16, 2011 – Despite a gloomy forecast, thirty-one sprint cars with drivers from five states, and a throng of fans in the grandstand assembled in Jacksonville, Illinois last Friday night for “Round 2” of the Monster Energy™ Sprint Series. Unfortunately, it was not to be, as a steady rain began to fall [...]
Category: Illinois, Jacksonville Speedway, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
Pittman Powers Posse Past World of Outlaws at Williams Grove
Leppo, Sides round out podium as rivals gear up for Morgan Cup Challenge MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – May 13, 2011 – For weeks this showdown at Williams Grove Speedway featuring the nationally touring World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series taking on the Pennsylvania Posse has been brewing. It’s fitting, then, that Daryn Pittman, a driver from [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series News
Monster Energy™ Sprint Series Postponed A Week at Jacksonville!
(Bill W) May 14, 2011 – The Monster Energy™ Sprint Series had undertaken hot laps and were readying their cars for the heats before the rains came on Friday night at Jacksonville Speedway. “Round 2” for the series will be moved back to next Friday, May 20 at the banked ¼ mile oval. Thirty-one sprint [...]
Category: Illinois, Jacksonville Speedway, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
Loyet wins 2nd straight in POWRi Midgets, Andruskevitch takes 1st triumph in POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micros at Belle-Clair Speedway
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (May 13, 2011)—Brad Loyet drove to his second straight victory in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series on Friday at Belle-Clair Speedway. “I don’t know how many wins we’ve had here in the past four years, but it seems like every time we show up, we pick up a victory,” Loyet said. [...]
Category: Belle-Clair Speedway, Illinois, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Monster Energy™ Sprint Series Adds Four Big Dates to Schedule!
(Bill W) May 11, 2011 – The Monster Energy™ Sprint Series is riding a wave of momentum, and four big events have been added to the schedule for 2011! Dates are planned for Tri-City Speedway, St. Francois County Raceway, Macon Speedway and a co-sanctioned event with the IRA in LaSalle in September. On Friday, June [...]
Category: Illinois, La Salle Speedway, Macon Speedway, Missouri, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News, St. Francois County Raceway, Tri-City Speedway
Nick Knepper goes into Belle-Clair for POWRi Midgets with mixed emotions Friday; Lucas Oil series races Saturday at Macon
Nick Knepper will be driving on his home-town track Friday night when the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series races at Belle-Clair Speedway in Belleville, Ill. It’s an event he approaches with mixed emotions. “I love it and hate at the same time,“ Knepper explained. “I love the race track, the racing is unbelievable. It’s [...]
Category: Belle-Clair Speedway, Illinois, Macon Speedway, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
POWRI MIDGETS AND MICROS MAKE FIRST STOP OF THE SEASON AT MACON SPEEDWAY
(Macon, IL) Macon Speedway is proud to bring open wheeled action to the track this weekend to keep you on the edge of your seats. The 2011 POWRi National Midget and 600cc Micro Sprint Series will thrill fans this weekend at the lightning quick Macon Speedway in Macon, IL on Saturday, May 14. Three top-four [...]
Category: Illinois, Macon Speedway, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Piper brings extra energy, confidence into POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micros at Belle-Clair, Macon
Devon Piper opened the season with a career-best third place in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series. It has given the 19-year-old from Springfield, Ill., some extra spring in his step going into the second event of the season Friday at Belle-Clair Speedway in Belleville, Ill., and the third event Saturday at Macon [...]
Category: Belle-Clair Speedway, Illinois, Macon Speedway, POWRi Series News, Sprint Car & Midget News
2011 Hoosier 100 Set for May 27!!!
Indianapolis, IN (May 9, 2011) A wide open field of championship machinery is prepared to kick off the most important racing weekend of the year as the prestigious Hoosier Hundred is slated for Friday, May 27 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. For the first time in the history of the event and the United States [...]
Category: General/Other Sprint-Midget News, Sprint Car & Midget News
Monster Energy™ Sprint Series Heads for Jacksonville for Round 2…Purse Increased!
(Bill W) May 9, 2011 – It would be hard to envision a better story than the opener for the Monster Energy™ Sprint Series at the 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa. The new 410 sprint series is ready to try to top it in “Round 2” on Friday, May 13 at the Jacksonville Speedway [...]
Category: Illinois, Jacksonville Speedway, Monster Energy Sprint Series, Sprint Car & Midget News
